Hooray, it’s Tony Esolen!

Professor Anthony Esolen teaches Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization atProvidence College. A senior editor forTouchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, he writes regularly for First Things, Magnificat, This Rock, Crisis, andLatin Mass. His most recent books areThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery Press, 2008); Ironies of Faith (ISI Press, 2007); and Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press, 2010). Professor Esolen has also translated Dante.

So what’s he doing on Patheos?  Giving us the Word of the Day, of course.  Reading Tony Esolen is like watching otters play in a waterfall.  Esolen also writes with deep tenderness and insight about history, education, and children, among other things.

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